What were your intentions, and what will they be now?
As this blessed month comes to an end we look back on what our intentions were for this month. As an organization we entered the month after having canceled our annual benefit dinner, with nearly 30 students and their families that dependent on us to offer a high quality, soul-centered education.
We were in the midst of a global pandemic, but, Ramadan came…as a saving grace from Allah. We found our focus, our purpose, and made our intentions for the month: to trust that Allah will provide for the Foundation as long as we remain sincere, to not make any excuse to lower the standards of the Foundation’s Sanad Prep Learning Center, and to sincerely serve humanity through our skills and programs.
These past few months were also about adjusting to a “new normal”. Yet, we remained committed to nurturing, developing and sustaining the intellectual and spiritual growth of youth, families, and community; to provide the resources and environment for individuals to learn about their world, their life and themselves; and to be a means of outreach and support to those inclined to guidance. We continued to serve the community through an online children’s series, counseling services, offering Sanad Prep classes for free, sharing our morning assemblies live on social media, and more.
Now, as we pass through dangers as well as blessed days, it’s important to remember that Allah remains, always. We need to focus on the work we’ve always been doing. Which is why I’m sending you this message. We are still here, creating something special – a new kind of community education center that meets the cognitive, spiritual, emotional, and social needs of children, families, and seniors….and we will continue as long as God gives us permission.
I invite you to help support the community around you. In these last hours increase in your generosity and reap the rewards of the closing of Ramadan. Let’s all seek out opportunities to ensure children and families are always cared for with love. If you have not had an opportunity to consider Sanad Trust Foundation for your sadaqa, I hope that you might. In fact, we have a matching grant from the American Muslim Community Fund for anyone who donates $1,500. Your gift today will sustain our efforts to have adab, share knowledge, and show love through this crisis.
If you have shown your generosity to Sanad Trust I thank you and encourage you to continue to seek out other organizations and causes. We can all benefit each other now in an impactful way as social distancing relaxes and we try to regain normalcy.
My teacher was asked what intentions should be made for after Ramadan? He answered that it is good to make these intentions before Ramadan is over so that the reward for our intentions is multiplied. Among the intentions he advised to make are that we intend to serve the Ummah in the best way by focusing on the three objectives of knowledge, devotion and service and that we intend to seek the pleasure of Allah and to make His Messenger ﷺ happy in all that we do. These are our intentions insha’Allah, what will be yours?
May you have a blessed end to your Ramadan,
Rehan Mirza
Founding Executive Director
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